Originally published at eclecticism. You can comment here or there.

We have so many books in our apartment!

For a few years now, I’ve been using LibraryThing to track my book collection. Ever since Prairie and I moved in together, we’ve been occasionally talking about adding her books to the listing, but it always seemed like such a monumental undertaking that we never actually did anything about it. However, with us both on a bit of a holiday break, we decided that the time had come, and we’ve been plugging away at the collection, putting about a shelf a day into the database on my computer and then uploading the day’s entries into the LibraryThing database.

And now, the project is done: our entire library — all 1,465 books — is cataloged!

It’s a fun library, too. Between Prairie’s years in English Literature classes and love for the classics, my science-fiction collection, our mutual love for good children’s literature, and many other influences, we’ve ended up with a collection that goes all over the place.

This also gave us a good chance to get a look at how we’re doing with those authors we’re making a point of collecting: Agatha Christie, Anne Rice, Dean Koontz, Roald Dahl, Stephen King (a full set, we believe), and others.

We do love our books!

While I’m not around as much as I used to be or would like to be, evidence of my continued existence on this planet and in this internet can be found…

…if you know where to look.

Herewith, a brief rundown of those other places on the ‘net where I tend to pop up from time to time (even if those times are few and far between). If you have an account on any of the following services, feel free to add me as a contact, friend, or whatever the respective term is.

Update: Fixed all the links so they’re not broken. Heh. Oops. Should all work now.

• More likely to have some evidence of me poking around:

  • My primary website, eclecticism, which can be syndicated on LJ via woody_eclectic.

  • Flickr, where all my photography gets posted. Lately, this has been getting more attention than any other aspect of my online persona.

  • del.icio.us collects my daily" title="this is nifty links. This is the source for the (hopefully not too annoying) daily-ish linkdump that pops up here on LJ, and for the same (but more constantly updated) list on the sidebar of Eclecticism.

  • Library Thing is my book collection. The ‘reading’ tag is whatever I’m currently working my way through, while a quick glance at my author tag cloud will give a quick overview of my reading habits. Suggestions are always welcome.

  • Upcoming.org, where I post events around town that I might be either considering or actually dragging myself out of the house to wander down to.

• Not quite as likely to be actively poked at, but still often showing signs of my existence:

  • Amazon.com, where I occasionally shop and toss things into my wish list on the off chance that someone might feel generous and rich.

  • Last.fm tracks every single song I listen to. My current playlists are a little skewed due to a hard drive crash that lost about 90Gb (yes, gigabytes) of music, but it’s not completely off base. Yes, my musical tastes really are that varied.

  • I haven’t had as much time to keep up with Metafilter as I’d like, but they’re still one of (if not the) best linklog on the ‘net.

  • MySpace. Sadly, yes, I too have been sucked into the sucking black hell of MySpace. I don’t check in very often, but I do exist.

  • Much like MetaFilter, my Slashdot presence has dwindled down to very little. However, it’s still amusing to look back on the insanity of when I got Slashdotted. Yes — I’m that guy.

  • I used to be pretty active in the Yahoo chatrooms, but gave up on that years ago. There’s still a few friends in the Yahoo-verse, though, so I keep this somewhat up to date. Somewhat.

• Not really used at all, but I have an account and occasionally remember to check in to see if I need to pay attention to anything:

  • 30 boxes, an online calendar/time management system.

  • OK Cupid, home of stupid little ‘net quizzes.

  • Tagworld, yet another social networking system, this one jumping on the tagging bandwagon.

  • Tribe.net, one of the few of the early social networking sites to still be around.

Especially book lovers with a compulsive (um…anal retentive?) need to cagtegorize their libraries, and with an interest in folksonomies and tagging systems (such as Flickr or del.icio.us)…

Check out LibraryThing. Really neat book cataloging, sharing, and tagging system. I set up my profile a couple of days ago, and just got done putting my entire library (at least, that part of my library that’s currently residing in my apartment) into the system.

Worth checking out…and let me know if any of you end up on there (or are already on there)!